Proverbs 2:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;

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  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
  • Prov 7:5-9 : 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words. 6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, 14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
  • Gen 39:3-9 : 3 And his master saw that the LORD [was] with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] he had he put into his hand. 5 And it came to pass from the time [that] he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. 6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was [a] goodly [person], and well favoured. 7 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. 8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what [is] with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; 9 [There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? 10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her. 11 And it came to pass about this time, that [Joseph] went into the house to do his business; and [there was] none of the men of the house there within. 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
  • Neh 13:26-27 : 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them]. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 ¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 ¶ A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

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  • Prov 7:5
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    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 5:19-20
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    19[Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

    20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 2:11-12
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    11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

    12To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;

  • Prov 5:2-4
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    2That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

    3For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

  • Prov 2:17-18
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    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  • Ezek 16:32-35
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    32[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

    33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

    34And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

    35¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

  • Prov 22:14
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    14¶ The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

    22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

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    15Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

  • Prov 5:6-9
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    6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

    7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

    8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

    9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

    6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 20:16
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    16¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Prov 7:10-12
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    10And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

    11(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

    12Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

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    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Prov 27:13
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    13¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Prov 9:16
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    16Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

  • Jer 2:33
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    33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

  • Prov 5:17
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    17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 2:20
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    20That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • Ps 144:11
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    11Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

  • Prov 3:17
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    17Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

  • Prov 6:2
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    2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,